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In the latest instalment of his series on Jean Baudrillard, political theorist Andrew Robinson explores the implications of the French thinker's theories of 'the code' and 'reproduction' for meaning and communication.

As the economic crisis continues to bite, and governments rush to prop up failing banks, the neoliberal model is widely seen to be failing. This is therefore a good time, Andrew Robinson argues, to look back at the structure of economic power today. In a two-part essay, he takes on the incredible rise of global cities.

Roland Barthes was one of the major theorists of culture of the twentieth century. In the first of a six-essay series, political theorist Andrew Robinson presents the French author's approach to semiotics.

In the latest addition to his A-Z of Theory series, political theorist Andrew Robinson introduces, in a two-part essay, the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most important theorists of discourse in the twentieth century. In part one, Robinson introduces Bakhtin's notions of Dialogism, Polyphony and Heteroglossia.

In the second of his three essays on Mikhail Bakunin, political theorist Andrew Robinson addresses Bakunin's intellectual clash with Karl Marx, notably their different conceptions of freedom and revolution.

In a new addition to his "A to Z of theory" series, political theorist Andrew Robinson introduces, in a three-part essay, the ideas of Mikhail Bakunin, "perhaps the best-known of the classical anarchists". In part one, Robinson introduces Bakunin's thoughts on statism and class struggle.